no they are stock people, stored in Adobe’s personwarehouse
“Personware” sounds like Elon’s brain implant plan
Anything taken before 2023, yes. I had a former colleague who’s boyfriend was a photographer, and he took a shitload of pictures of her in various random business suites and situations, close-ups of her holding pens, mugs, papers, glasses, etc. etc. and published them on some stock portals. They don’t pay a whole lot of royalties for multiple use images, but every now and then someone buys an exclusive license, meaning the picture is afterwards removed from the stock archive, and that pays several hundred bucks.
So it’s really a numbers game, the more photos you dump on the platform, the better.
Anything published since last year has at least a chance to be AI generated. Should be tagged as such, but well. Should.
I was chatting with a stock photographer a while back. Apparently the most important thing is the tags that you give the photos. The best ones are abstract because you aren’t competing with “hand” and “pen”. If you can make your photo of a hand holding a pen fit “wistful” or “trenchant” then you have a better chance of it being seen. Making thousands of weird photos like a hammer/screwdriver/wand being held over a watermelon/plastic duck/brick by a clown/policeman/nurse and giving them abstract tags is the way to go.
Seeing this question proves that AI changes everything.
Even without AI there’s an awful lot of random stock photos. Years ago I remember I searched for and found a stock image of a woman tied to the train tracks of one of those kids mini train things, also there was like a few to pick from. I swear it was in some way relevant to the presentation that was giving but they can’t remember details.
AI isn’t needed.
Indeed, people have been manipulating photos since they invented photography.
What about those Photoshop jobs where they make a picture of, say, Taylor Swift, but they made it by manipulating a bunch of other images together? Is that a real person or not? 🤔
Tay Tay Ship of Theseus
Well, no. It changes stock photos. Stock photos aren’t everything.
Most photos/videos taken with recent smartphones have been AI processed as well.
I am not saying “everything” in a literal sense, but you get what I meant to say, I hope.
(I am not saying that AI is changing the speed of light, just in case you are wondering).
If we end up with an AI capable of changing the speed of light I’m going to be a bit concerned.
Yes they are.
Here’s a TED talk on YouTube from “Hide the pain Herold” a guy who was in a stock photo that became a meme: https://youtu.be/FScfGU7rQaM?si=MFVrgwlJQ8DSOfVB
Being a stock photo model is prob one of the first casualties of AI-Generative images
Hide the pain Harold has a whole new source of pain.
Bonus question, was being a stock photo model a “full time job” or it was more an actor/model job that you do between more interesting projects ?
That said, with the ridiculous price of stock photo, and the remaining glitches in AI model, not sure whether it’s really cheaper to generate an AI image (Need to get high resolution image, and to review them, you don’t want a bad buzz because a necklace didn’t close or whatever glitches are left) . It’s basically depending whether some stock photo bank have implemented a natural language search.
I’m not certain if it’s a full-time position, but I’m aware there are part-time model agencies that hand out odd jobs here and there. The ones I’ve come across were for clothing catalogues and so on, but I imagine they exist for stock photos too.
Don’t know if it’s a full time job, but I work with stock photos for a range of clients, and there are some people you see pop up in dozens of pics, covering all sorts of differing scenarios. There’s one particular older woman, with very short white hair, who I’ve seen over and over and over again, it’s weird.
If the stock photos are sold in a stock photo sites that don’t allow computer-generated or edited photos, then yes, they’re most likely real.
Depends on when the stock photo was made, I suppose.
Nobody is real, we are all constructs of the simulation
Bill Lastname, Cardholder
… Is also a real person, credit card companies specifically pay people to license their name for stock card shots, so that no one can sue them.
WDYM “real”?
like can you or will you able to meet them in person?
Sure. For instance, Andras Arato (“Hide the Pain Harold”) regurarly interacts with his fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3WnvDtDD2M
Also the three people from the “distracted boyfriend” meme were all stock photo models.
Don’t be upset about getting old, it beats the alternative.
I’ve heard people sing otherwise.
Yes and no.
The actors can be met in person as they are real, but the generic characters they portray are not.
